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Was out with the wife again today at Golden Point, Sth of Maryborough. A beautiful place with plenty of reefs to look at. Our third time there so still investigating areas, the wife seems to find the odd sub sub grammer, me not so much.
Today we had an unfortunate incident where a group of three dirt bikers (3 x 4 stroke with Rec reg, 1 illegal with female pillion passenger) - they were casing our car, checking it out with numerous drive by's getting closer and closer till one spotted the wife prospecting. He then called to his mates and they took off.
They took off, only to return and ride through thick bush to stop about 30 meters away. One young guy (maybe in his 20's) walked straight up behind the wife and quite blatantly ask if she'd found anything. Then he came over to me, no niceties, politeness, of greeting and just started randomly talking and asking questions such as "have you found any gold" and "do you have any gold"?? "You must need expensive detectors to find gold?"
Then proceeded to pretend to be interested in prospecting before returning to his group. They then continued to ride closer and closer to us till one rode right past me while detecting, no more the 15 feet away - a test of sorts maybe? He had an entire forest to ride in, and I wasn't happy with their suspicious activity so took of after them with pick in hand.
The one with a pillion that rode past me got jammed in a old timers dig hole, and that's where I caught up with him. I asked why he was riding so close to us, to which he said - I was 20 feet away, and I've got a license to ride in the forest. He then continued to inform me I was committing an illegal act by prospecting - I came back with "I have a license to prospect in this forest".
He wasn't being reasonable so I asked him to get off his bike so we could "sort this out". The girl on the back yelled at him "no" - go go go. And he said "hold on" and gave his very loud motorbike some juice and popped out of that hole joining his friends and never to be seen again (though we could still hear them in the distance).
I didn't get his registration number but now wish I did. Anyway - just a warning to be aware of your surrounds while out detecting - most people do the right thing, some don't.
Today we had an unfortunate incident where a group of three dirt bikers (3 x 4 stroke with Rec reg, 1 illegal with female pillion passenger) - they were casing our car, checking it out with numerous drive by's getting closer and closer till one spotted the wife prospecting. He then called to his mates and they took off.
They took off, only to return and ride through thick bush to stop about 30 meters away. One young guy (maybe in his 20's) walked straight up behind the wife and quite blatantly ask if she'd found anything. Then he came over to me, no niceties, politeness, of greeting and just started randomly talking and asking questions such as "have you found any gold" and "do you have any gold"?? "You must need expensive detectors to find gold?"
Then proceeded to pretend to be interested in prospecting before returning to his group. They then continued to ride closer and closer to us till one rode right past me while detecting, no more the 15 feet away - a test of sorts maybe? He had an entire forest to ride in, and I wasn't happy with their suspicious activity so took of after them with pick in hand.
The one with a pillion that rode past me got jammed in a old timers dig hole, and that's where I caught up with him. I asked why he was riding so close to us, to which he said - I was 20 feet away, and I've got a license to ride in the forest. He then continued to inform me I was committing an illegal act by prospecting - I came back with "I have a license to prospect in this forest".
He wasn't being reasonable so I asked him to get off his bike so we could "sort this out". The girl on the back yelled at him "no" - go go go. And he said "hold on" and gave his very loud motorbike some juice and popped out of that hole joining his friends and never to be seen again (though we could still hear them in the distance).
I didn't get his registration number but now wish I did. Anyway - just a warning to be aware of your surrounds while out detecting - most people do the right thing, some don't.